Base Mérimée: Monuments historiques · France
Église Saint-Alban
Elven, Morbihan, France
The record
- Designation
- Historic monument, registered (inscrit), in part
- Protection
- inscrit MH partiellement
- Extent of protection
- L'abside et la sacristie (cad. I 451) : inscription par arrêté du 24 avril 1925
- Protection dates
- 1925/04/24 : inscrit MH
- Type
- église
- Main period of construction
- 16e siècle
- Dates
- 1526
- Ownership
- propriété de la commune
- Lieu-dit
- le Bourg
- Commune
- Elven
- Département
- Morbihan
- Region
- Bretagne
- Country
- France
- Coordinates
- 47.73262, -2.59039
- Mérimée reference
- PA00091178
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5 historical maps cover this location, the earliest the 1695 map "Carte de l'Evesche de Nantes." (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries).
The Ministère de la Culture's notice
Historique
Eglise moderne ayant conservé l'abside de l'ancien édifice. A l'intérieur, sablières très ouvragées à feuilles et figures. Deux étages de sculptures en haut reliefs séparés par une moulure. A l'étage inférieur, chimères soutenant des écus ; rinceaux avec têtes humaines ; guirlandes de feuillages et de fruits ; oiseaux. A l'étage supérieur, et s'avançant comme sur un balcon, anges à coiffure frisée vus de face et à mi-corps, tenant des écus non armoriés ; personnages divers, à mi-corps, en costumes Renaissance, dans des attitudes diverses, formant comme une galerie de portraits Renaissance française.
English translation
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History
Modern church having retained the chevet of the former building. Inside, very elaborate sablières with leaves and figures. Two levels of high relief sculptures separated by a moulding. On the lower level, chimaeras supporting shields; scrollwork with human heads; garlands of foliage and fruit; birds. On the upper level, and advancing as if on a balcony, angels with curled hairstyles seen face-on and half-length, holding unarmoured shields; various figures, half-length, in Renaissance costumes, in various attitudes, forming as it were a gallery of French Renaissance portraits.
Nearby in the register
- Ancienne forteresse ou ancien château de Largouëtforteresse1 mi
- Chapelle Saint-Clément et croix monolithe sur le placîtrechapelle2 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.